Thank you for his informative account about past medical abuses of defenseless people. Unfortunately, the abuses continue today not only in the US but also in other countries, including some in the European Union, and are in some cases even worse than those old transgressions you describe.

For instance, the SUPPORT study published last May 16 in the New England Journal of Medicine tells how researchers at 16 US hospitals experimented with reducing the oxygen breathing help for premature babies although they knew that this greatly increased the risk of death for those desperately gasping preemies.

These researchers wanted to find out if reducing the oxygen would reduce the combined rate of death and blinding from retinopathy of prematurity, as if these two outcomes had the same importance for the babies, and as if intact eyes were of any use to a dead child. Their knowingly asphyxiating study preventably killed 23 extra babies in the low-oxygen group, or
3.7 per cent, with a 96 per cent probability that this predictable “better dead than blind” result was not a statistical fluke.

Parallel studies with the same baby-killing protocol are currently being conducted in England, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, with the Canadian study recruiting babies not only in Canada but also in Germany, Finland, USA, Israel, and Argentina.

All these studies are part of the NeOProM group of trials on preemies which aims to combine the results for greater statistical power, see biomedcentral.com/1471-2431/11/6. Its authors cite the disastrous results from the first oxygen
withholding study, held in 1954/55 in the USA, which killed 16 children for each case of blindness prevented and caused an estimated death toll of 150,000 babies in the first 20 years.

The influence of that rigged study continues to dominate intensive care nursery practices around the world and led to the NeOProM protocol.

Based on the known effects of oxygen withholding, these authors state openly that none of the current trials will be able to exclude the possibility of “a small but significant four per cent increase in death or serious neurosensory disability in survivors”, as if it was OK to sacrifice any human babies for this sickening “science”.

The British study is called BOOST II-UK and has the
registration number ISRCTN00842661. It planned to enroll 1200 preemies from September 2007 to February 2011 and is scheduled to be published in September 2013.

The Canadian study has the acronym COT and the registration number ISRCTN62491227. It planned to enroll 1200 preemies from January 2007 to July 2010 and is scheduled for publication in June 2012.

As with many of the examples cited in the article, the brief press coverage of the SUPPORT study publication mentioned the promise of reduced blinding but omitted any mention of the meticulously planned medical mass murder.

All the medical grant givers and Institutional Review Boards involved had approved this cold-blooded baby-killing experiment. In the US, no one appears to have told the parents what the doctors were doing to their children: the National Institutes of Health searched their files for my Freedom of Information request and could not find any records of the Informed Consent Forms that patients or their parents
are supposed to sign before any medical experiment on any human subject can begin. Since preemies cannot complain those researchers apparently considered it OK to treat them behind their parents’ backs as disposable guinea pigs.

A similar deception is likely in the other countries because no sane parent will knowingly agree to increase the risk of death for their child, and even if they did their consent would be illegal because they must protect the interest of the child.

For a detailed description of this modern-day cruel and lethal experiment on the most vulnerable and defenseless babies, see my recent complaint about it to the US Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, at
retinopathyofprematurity.org/BioethicsSUPPORT.htm.

Peter Aleff
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